Re: is octave slow and missing functions?

[Przemek Klosowski]

> I got this response re. octave as alternative to matlab:
>
>> I should make a note about this; I use octave a lot at home as it's
>> rather cheap (free). It can be an alternative in some instances but
>> there are some limitations with it:
   ....
>> * there is no GUI (and the CLI lacks the very useful !-command)

Opinionated ignorance. Matlab uses ! for external shell commands, so
for instance '!ls' prints the current directory listing. In Octave
you'd just do 'ls'. I guess he has a point---Octave does lack the !
command (nb, in Octave ! is the logical negation operator).